One hundred years ago Federico Fellini was born. Rimini celebrates him with a major exhibition

On January 20, 1920, the great director Federico Fellini (Rimini, 1920 - Rome, 1993) was born in Rimini: his hometown celebrates him with an exhibition entitled Fellini 100. Immortal Genius, scheduled at Castel Sismondo from December 14, 2019 to March 15, 2020. Conceived and designed by Studio Azzurro, the exhibition, curated by Marco Bertozzi and Anna Villari, unfolds along fourteen rooms that delve into three thematic nuclei: Federico Fellini’s imagery as told through the history of Italy, the story of the director’s traveling companions (real and imaginary), and a third nucleus that will present the permanent project of the Federico Fellini International Museum, which will constitute the largest museum project dedicated to the director (it will have three locations: Castel Sismondo, Palazzo Valloni, which was the site of the Fulgor cinema where Fellini saw his first films, and an urban area called Piazza dei Sogni (Square of Dreams), which, with installations and set designs, will act as a common thread between the other two venues) and will exhibit films, documentaries, interviews, scripts, letters, scores, props, drawings, and costumes.

The exhibition will feature much previously unpublished material, some of it from the Fondo Nino Rota, the composer who collaborated with Fellini on many films (the original notebooks on which Rota jotted down the director’s instructions on the music that would accompany his choices will be on display). Unpublished materials also include the first screenplay of Amarcord (originally titled Il borgo), the screenplay of Otto e mezzo owned by Lina Wertmüller, who was Fellini’s assistant director on that very film, and then clothes, costumes, the original clapperboard (on loan from the Fellini Foundation in Sion), photographs, images of stock footage from the Istituto Luce and Teche Rai, and material from the archive of poet Tonino Guerra will also be on display.

The exhibition is accompanied by a schedule of events, Fellini 100, coordinated by the Federico Fellini National Committee (made up of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Emilia Romagna Region, the Municipality of Rimini, the Cineteca Foundation of Bologna, the Istituto Luce, the Experimental Cinematography Center Foundation, the National Film Library and the National Cinema Museum of Turin), and which has adopted as its logo a drawing by director Paolo Virzì inspired by the famous photo, taken by Tazio Secchiaroli, of the “Fellini tamer” on the set of Otto e mezzo.

“This exhibition, dedicated to the immortal genius of Federico Fellini, is the first step in an ambitious goal,” Rimini Mayor Andrea Gnassi stressed. “The one that wants to restore the creative and human universe of the Rimini master through the primary key of imagination, which crosses all times, and which permanently feeds on tradition and modernity. The Federico Fellini International Museum, which will open its doors in Rimini in 2020, the Maestro’s centenary, and which will also host in its permanent collection the exhibition we are presenting today, has the declared goal of not being a sequence of display cases. If anything, it is a visionary place in constant evolution, where research, in-depth study, and the unceasing contribution of art and artists from every country combine with innovation, technology, to enhance not only the memory but the legacy of Fellini. Federico Fellini is still today, looking at films, advertising, contemporary art, one of the most avowedly cited and above all evoked artists. Rimini is preparing to inaugurate a dynamic exhibition and diffuse museum, which aspires to become a center of world interest also because of its unique location: the Malatesta castle, the Fulgor cinema building, the large urban outdoor area between the monument and the building. A transversal journey through the centuries, history and creativity. Fellini should have the same role and centrality as the Guggenheim Museum for Bilbao. An engine and attractor of culture and art, which has the ambition to cover its own precise space in the great international museum network. Not only that: the entire development of the city of Rimini will revolve around the ramifications of all kinds that will guarantee this unique cultural space, in harmony with the city’s other extraordinary cultural containers.”

The exhibition opens Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Closed Mondays. Special openings on Dec. 23, 30 and Jan. 6 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Dec. 25 and Jan. 1 from 3 to 11 p.m., Dec. 26 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m., Dec. 31 and Jan. 20 from 10 a.m. to late at night. Full ticket 10 euros. For all info see the exhibition website.

One hundred years ago Federico Fellini was born. Rimini celebrates him with a major exhibition

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